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ADA Compliance Audit and Design Service

1Our Team

We are seasoned web developers and designers with vast experience optimizing websites into their best possible version.

2Compliance and ADA

There are regulations in place that protect the rights all users have to access information equally. If your website is not prepared to face these challenges, your company is at risk of losing traffic or even facing legal actions.

3Why Us?

We understand compliance. We understand the ADA. We have the experience and skills to ensure your website and your company remain at the forefront, well ahead of your competition, and perfectly placed to attract and retain traffic.

Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act

What is it?

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation that prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities to participate in the mainstream of American life. With the advent of the World Wide Web, doors opened up to a whole new universe of regulations, specifically under the ADA's Title III, which protects against discrimination on the basis of disability in public accommodations and commercial facilities. This includes business websites.

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Considerations

Businesses tend to focus only on a handful of possible disabilities to address with their web design, while in truth there is a variety of them to consider:

Legal blindness

Low vision

Color blindness

Intellectual disabilities

Limited mobility

Hearing impairment

What can I do?

Audit your website for compliance issues.

ADA compliance is based on current WCAG 2 standards, which set basic guidelines on web design and structure in order for websites to be fully and properly functional.

By adopting web accessibility best practices on your website or ensuring those in place are working properly, you'll be shielding your business against legal action.

At Origin Eight, our team of seasoned experts is fully prepared to carry out a full and extensive audit of your website in order to determine whether it meets the criteria necessary for a smooth user experience for people using assistive technology.

Our audit process will identify any and all issues that might be affecting website navigation for people using assistive technology and offer detailed recommendations on how to address each one.

Our Process:

Our auditing process will comb through every inch of your website to find all potential issues:

1 . Thorough review of website pages:

Site-wide header & footer

Home page and other key landing pages

Sample of content pages that use a common template (e.g. blog posts)

Forms

Any interactive elements

2 . Four-way review:

Attempt to use website with assistive technologies, including screen readers and keyboard navigation, or zoomed in

View website with design (CSS) and JavaScript disabled, which roughly emulates what a screen reader would be able to access

Run Automated Accessibility audit tools

Code review

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3. Extensive search for:

Items that are not readable for screen readers

Elements that are difficult or impossible to access using keyboard navigation

Areas with insufficient color contrast

Images without alternate text, videos with bad or nonexistent captions, text in images, content presented only in an image

Anything that moves automatically (e.g. sliders)

Forms that aren’t coded properly

Tables that aren’t coded properly

Any complex charts or diagrams that aren’t properly described in text.